in Japan. Haniya was a prolific writer; after his death, Kodansha published his complete works in a set of 19 volumes. He won the 6th Tanizaki Prize in 1970 for his collection Black Horses in the Darkness and Other Stories. When Haniya died in 1997, he was still working on his novel Departed Souls, which by that time extended to over 9,000 pages in length. Selected works Departed Souls, (Shirei, 死靈), 1933-1997 (first published beginning in 1946) Black Horses in the Darkness and Other Stories, (Yami no naka no kuroi uma, 闇のなかの黒い馬), 1970 References External link 1909 births 1997 deaths Anti-natalists 20th-century Japanese novelists Japanese male short story writers 20th-century Japanese short story writers 20th-century Japanese male writers